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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
| Date: | 02 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Union members of Local 317 in Milwaukee strike outside the Electric Co.'s N. Edison Street plant. It was a very cold night. |
| Date: | 08 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper. |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America gutting a beef carcass on the dressing floor. |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker in safety goggles tests the hardness of TracTracTor (crawler tractor) roller shells on a Gogan machine at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers pour molten metal into diesel engine crankcase forms at the Milwaukee Works foundry. Photograph taken by Don Jones. |
| Date: | 12 07 1955 |
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| Description: | A worker welds together sections of a press slide that was later purchased by Federal Engineering and used by the automotive industry. |
| Date: | 03 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Two long-time Falk employees, Bob Quitzow and Frank Ruscitti, work in the gas cutting department. Original Falk caption reads: "View of 'Bug' cutting Depar... |
| Date: | 04 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Two men simultaneously weld. According to an original Falk caption, "rough weight. 72000 pound est.-Unit was rough machine to with [sic]. 1/4 inch o... |
| Date: | 06 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Two seated men weld a sugar mill drive that was later purchased by E.L. Dennis Engineering Company of New Orleans, Louisiana and used by A. Wilbert's Sons ... |
| Date: | 06 1957 |
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| Description: | A seated man welds a sugar mill drive that was later purchased by E.L. Dennis Engineering Company of New Orleans, Louisiana and used by A. Wilbert's Sons M... |
| Date: | 11 13 1959 |
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| Description: | Two male employees weld a large gear. Original Falk caption reads, "Made in halves, 16 feet to zero inch in diameter on the top. Ribs 4 1/2 OL. Premachine ... |
| Date: | 03 27 1963 |
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| Description: | A man welds at the base of an upper chamber. This upper chamber or pressure vessel was purchased by Adamson-United Company of Akron, Ohio, and used by B.F.... |
| Date: | 01 07 1964 |
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| Description: | Employees in protective clothing near aluminum rolling mill drive. Falk caption reads,"Drawing number 415731 and 415732, patent number 605385. View shows b... |
| Date: | 05 1965 |
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| Description: | Pinion stand that was later purchased by U.S. Steel (Allegheny Project) and used by Gary Steel Works. Falk caption reads, "Various manufacturing and assemb... |
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| Description: | Factory worker operating a "Hannifin quenching press" at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Driver Spencer Washart on left, with John Genter (the mechanic) sitting next to him. Washart has 'Mercedes" written across his shirt. Another car is behind... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The photographer J. Robert Taylor posing outdoors with his motorcycle in front of a large cannon. The cannon is mounted on a low pedestal and is enclosed b... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Front view of the photographer J. Robert Taylor on his motorcycle. |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor cleaning a furnace. He has a broom and a small brush in hand, a pipe in his mouth, and a dirty rag placed on his head. He is reading a doc... |
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